BEYOND MOBILITY:THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL URBAN POLICY

Author: IMBROSCIO, DAVID

Source: Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 34, Number 1, 1 February 2012 , pp. 1-20(20)

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Abstract:

ABSTRACT: Liberalism remains the dominant philosophical perspective underlying the development of urban public policy in the United States. At the heart of Liberal Urban Policy lies a Mobility Paradigm, which is marked by a strong emphasis on facilitating population movement as a means of addressing urban social problems. In this paper, I explicate the nature of this Mobility Paradigm across four key urban policy goals and then develop a critique of it. In its place, I offer one alternative—a Placemaking Paradigm—and discuss its contrasting conceptual attributes and policy implications. The Placemaking Paradigm points toward the nascent development of a Critical Urban Policy, which stands as an insurgent normative and empirical challenge to hitherto liberal dominance.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00578.x

Affiliations: 1: University of Louisville

Publication date: 2012-02-01